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1) Slacker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twins Jake and Lily have a very close relationship, but when they turn eleven, their parents give them separate bedrooms and Jake begins to spend time with a group of neighborhood boys. Lily is devastated as she struggles to make friends, and Jake is faced with a bully.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Norah struggles to fit in at middle school after two years of treatment, but she finds her voice with the help of new friend Griffin, who shares her love of mythology.
10) The it girl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shy, awkward fourteen-year-old Anna is thrust into the spotlight when her father becomes engaged to a very popular actress, leading to both popularity and problems at school.
11) A drop of hope
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A well. A wish. And a little drop of hope.
Times are tough. Jobs are scarce and miracles are in short supply. But something strange is happening in Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio. An old well has suddenly, impossibly, begun to grant wishes. And three sixth graders are the only ones who know why.
Ernest Wilmette believes a good deed makes magic happen. Ryan Hardy thinks they should just mind their own business. Lizzy MacComber believes in facts, not fairy...
12) Mango delight
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller accidentally breaks her BFF Brooklyn's new cell phone, her life falls apart. She loses her friends and her spot on the track team, and even costs her father his job as a chef. But Brooklyn's planned revenge-- sneakily signing up Mango to audition for the school musical-- backfires when Mango not only wins the lead role, but becomes a YouTube sensation and attracts the attention of the school's queen bee, Hailey...
13) Hello, universe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
15) Amal unbound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
17) After Eli
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living by two unexpected friends, Walter and Isabelle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father—a famed artist—left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's poignant debut is a character-driven story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity. Both literary and pitch-perfect for tweens, Many Points of Me is Rebecca Stead meets From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Georgia Rosenbloom's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through emails.
20) Skies like these
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting her eccentric aunt who lives in Wyoming, twelve-year-old Jade befriends a boy who believes he is a descendant of Butch Cassidy.
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